Journal of Language and Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Language and Politics is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Review of Hart (2025): Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics69
Limits, frontiers, antagonism30
Review of Shi-xu (2024): The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies24
News on fake news14
Shaping gender policies at the COPs13
How quotation marks do mockery in online politicized discourse13
Critical junctures beyond the black box12
Review of House & Kádár (2025): Language and Politics: A Cross-cultural Pragmatic Perspective12
Review of Howard (2023): Multilingualism in the Andes: Policies, Politics, Power12
Demarcating rights in divided social worlds11
Review of Scotto di Carlo (2025): A Critical Discourse Analysis of Violence against Women: From D.A.R.V.O. to Institutional Courage11
Review of Lütge, Merse & Rauschert (2022): Global Citizenship in Foreign Language Education: Concepts, Practices, Connections10
A meta-discursive analysis of engagement markers in QAnon anti-immigration comments10
Review of Demata (2023): Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA: A Discourse-historical Analysis10
Perception of charisma in text and speech10
Equivocation in media communication9
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Review of Butler (2024): Political Discourse Analysis: Legitimization Strategies in Crisis and Conflict8
“You are fake news”8
Serbian Progressive Party’s shameless normalization of expressing sycophancy toward the leader7
“The rock of stability?”7
Review of Rüdiger & Dayter (2025): Manipulation, Influence and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language7
Discourses and practices of the ‘New Normal’6
Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South6
Setting boundaries between crime and rights6
Review of Fotiadou (2022): The Language of Employability: A Corpus-Based Analysis of UK University Websites6
Romania’s first female prime minister’s meme-ification5
Enemy narratives5
Constitutive representation of womanhood5
Visions of the good future5
Review of Chiluwa (2021): Discourse and Conflict: Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-building5
Examining political influence on language5
Multimodality as civic participation5
The discursive representation of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Austrian news coverage: 2010–2015–20204
From Barack Obama to Donald Trump4
‘A resilient Europe’?4
The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados’ prime minister Mia Mottley4
Which energy, whose South?4
The (anti-)political logic of authoritarian institutionalism4
A fence of opportunity4
Rhetorical (ir)responsibility in the Australian Parliament4
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Traditional beliefs as target and weapon4
Review of Closs Stephens (2022): National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political4
The aesthetic values of the semiotic choices in Arab protests4
Navigating the ideological tide3
Review of Seargeant (2024): The future of language: How technology, politics and utopianism are transforming the way we communicate3
Farmers as symbol of ‘the people’3
Review of Nartey (2022): Political Myth-making, Populist Performance and Nationalist Resistance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s Construction of the African Unity Dream3
Review of Caimotto & Raus (2023): Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-shaping of Ideological Discourse3
No one needs to teach Macedonians what Europe is3
The construction and legitimation of Elisa Loncón as a Mapuche female political leader on Instagram3
Discourse theory and the turn to practice3
From socialism to neoliberalism3
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Discourses on Racism and Resilience3
Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change2
Review of Bennett (2025): Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse: Towards a Linguistic Sociology of Absences2
Review of Handford & Gee (2023): The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis2
Review of Chun (2022): Applied Linguistics and Politics2
Review of Stavrakakis (2024): Populist Discourse: Recasting Populism Research2
Reporting the others’ speech, uncovering China’s world dream2
Review of Russell (2024): Fighting Words: A Critical Approach to Linguistic Transgression2
Subverting EU legal concepts2
On the language of liberalism2
Negotiating trust through COVID-19 press briefings2
Review of Ali (2024): Policy, Media, and the Shaping of Spain-Morocco Relations: Discursive Representations of Migration to Ceuta and Melilla2
Review of Arnall & Chenoweth (2025): Universality and Translation: Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics2
Discourses on gender in climate change adaptation projects of Bangladesh2
Polarising metaphors in the Venezuelan Presidential Crisis2
Review of Taylor, Goodman & Dunmore (2025): The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities2
From controversy to common ground2
“Hope dies – Action begins”2
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“We pursue justice”2
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Humanitarian discourse as racism disclaimer1
Review of Merkle & Baer (2024): The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship1
Jair Bolsonaro and the defining attributes of the populist radical right in Brazil1
Fighting authoritarian populism with populism in polarised Turkey1
Radical Right-Wing Populism and Borders1
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Review of Guenther (2024): The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It1
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Review of Romano (2024): Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts1
Far-right discourse in Brazil1
Review of Musolff & Breeze (2022): Pandemic and Crisis Discourse Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy1
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Social media, politics, and the rise of the anti-refugee far-right in Turkey1
Review of Carpentier & Wimmer (2025): Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach1
Review of Ajšić (2025): Modeling Metalinguistic Discourse and Language Ideologies1
The populist radical right in Australia1
France’s “drôle de guerre”1
Review of Li, Lui & Fung (2020): Systemic functional political discourse: A text-based study1
‘They will not survive here’1
Review of Statham (2022): Critical discourse analysis: A practical introduction to power in language1
New opportunities for discourse studies1
A topic modeling-assisted diachronic study of “One Country, Two Systems” represented in Anglo-American newspapers1
The language of power or the power of language?1
Mass identifications and mythical violence1
Linguistic landscapes of activism1
Review of Ilie (2024): Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis1
Entrepreneur or capitalist?1
“Türkiye,” not “Turkey”1
Gender, language, and representation in the United States Senate1
The arrival of the populist radical right in Chile1
The static welfare claimant vs. the dynamic migrant1
Discourse Theory and the Turn to Practice1
Populist radical right beyond Europe1
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Giulia Cecchettin’s feminicide in the Italian online press1
Racialised vocabularies of resilience1
The utility of (political) dogwhistles – a life cycle perspective1
The use of metaphors to construct crisis discourses in describing COVID-19 vaccines in the Chinese and the American news media0
Review of Wachowski & Sullivan (2022): Metonymies and Metaphors for Death Around the World0
Unveiling ideological shifts in news trans‑editing0
Review of Korhonen, Kotze & Tyrkkö (2023): Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary Discourse Across Time and Space0
“A closed border is a compassionate border”0
The European migrant crisis in Polish parliamentary discourse0
“We are workers, we are not slaves”0
Review of Claridge (2025): News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press0
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Epistemic stance and public discourse on irregular migration in one of Europe’s outermost regions0
Review of Parnell (2024): Constructing Brexit Britain: A Corpus-Assisted Approach to National Identity Discourse0
Reactions to interruptions in Finnish, French and German parliamentary debates0
Racialising the resilient brain0
Exploring the evolution of the concept of liberty in the U.S. presidential inaugurals0
A meaningless buzzword or a meaningful label? How do Spanish politicians usepopulismoandpopulistaon Twitter?0
What’s in a name?0
‘We’re saying that we trust them but really we don’t’0
Review of Matthiessen, Wang, Ma & Mwinlaaru (2022): Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics0
Review of Forchtner (2023): Visualising far-right environments: Communication and the politics of nature0
Recontextualizing the “community with a shared future for mankind”0
“There is new technology here that can perform miracles”0
The populist radical right beyond Europe0
Reverberations0
Resilience in Finnish security and defence rhetoric0
Claims of ownership, claims of dignity0
Review of Deringer & Ströbel (2022): International Discourses of Authoritarian Populism: Varieties and Approaches0
Review of Chambers & Demir (2024): Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches0
Review of Rajandran & Lee (2023): Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia: Legitimising Governance0
Legitimation in revolutionary discourse0
Review of Feng (2023): Multimodal Chinese Discourse: Understanding Communication and Society in Contemporary China0
Doing gender at the far right0
The normalization of liquid racism in migrant narratives0
Review of Lam Sut I (2023): A Corpus-assisted Multimodal Analysis to Policy Addresses of Macao SAR Government: Two Decades of Change in Macao0
Review of van Dijk (2024): Social movement discourse: An introduction0
Review of Du (2025): Chinese Political Discourse in Translation: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis0
Positioning antagonistic discourses in the (de)bounded spaces of power0
Surprises, symbols, and mainstreaming0
Resilience in labour markets, a curse?0
In the name of the nobility of the cause, what I did is right0
Review of Baysha (2022): War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine0
A Europeanisation of American politics?0
“Thoughts & prayers,” conspiracy theories, and laughing emojis0
When pro-vaccine media discourses meet vaccine hesitancy0
“Does being pretty help?”0
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Belonging and borders0
Review of Fariña (2023): Psychological Borders in Europe and the United States: Contemporary Nationalism, Nativism, and Populism0
“First forced displacements, then slaughter”0
BIOMETRIC CITIZENS in smart cities0
Community organising and radical democracy0
Leadership in numbers0
Review of Tachtiris (2024): Translation and race0
Review of Serafis (2023): Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal Discourse and Argumentation in Times of Multiple Crises in Greece0
Border-making as illiberal politics0
National identity revisited0
From capitalist production to neoliberal lifestyle0
Review of Íñigo-Mora & Lastres-López (2024): Discourse Approaches to an Emerging Age of Populist Politics0
Disalignment in the EU0
Environmental conservation and urban development as competing stories of place and space in Singapore0
From “them” to “us”?0
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)0
“The youths are wiser now”0
Populism and contingency0
Review of Demasi, Burke & Tileagă (2021): Political communication: Discursive perspectives0
Review of Almanna & House (2023): Translation Politicised and Politics Translated0
Borderless fear?0
Review of Newth (2024): Fathers of the Lega: Populist Regionalism and Populist Nationalism in Historical Perspective0
Of infiltrators and wild beasts0
Inside the echo chamber0
Embodied resilience and political resistance0
Representing societies in language teaching textbooks0
The power of language0
The American abortion debate0
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The singular “national citizen” in English language textbooks in Pakistan0
Review of Wu (2023): Media Representations of Macau’s Gaming Industry in Greater China: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis0
Revisiting the rhetorical construction of political consent0
Emergent Twitter publics through political scandal0
Review of Frawley (2024): Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age0
ICT environmentalism and the sustainability game0
Review of Pradhan & Gupta (2025): Language Education, Politics and Technology in South Asia: Shaping Inclusive Societies, Identities, and Futures0
Normalization of ecological civilization in Chinese news media0
Review of Waring & Tadic (2024): Critical Conversation Analysis: Inequality and Injustice in Talk-in-Interaction0
Review of Wang & Huan (2025): Negotiating Climate Change in Public Discourse: Insights from Critical Discourse Studies0
The Tennessee three0
Legitimizing the interventions recommended in “European Research Area Policy Agenda 2022–2024”0
Review of Huang (2024): The Class and Gender Politics of Chinese Online Discourse: Ambivalence, Sociopolitical Tensions, and Co-option0
Political homophobia0
The role of gender in the evaluation of politicians in an online debate0
From social awareness to authoritarian other0
Review of Moore & Hauser (2025): Political Illustration: The Visual Language of Propaganda, Censorship, and Dissent0
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Symbolic-descriptive representation in the Chilean Constitutional Convention0
Studying affect through discourse theory0
Activism or slacktivism?0
Moral panic and (in)security0
Review of Akbari (2020): Iran’s Language Planning Confronting English Abbreviations: Persian Terminology Planning0
Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South0
“Almost a mother tongue”0
Review of Stibbe (2024): Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live By0
Interests convergence in global human rights politics0
Mearsheimer, Putin, ideology, and the war in Ukraine0
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The good, the bad, and the ugly0
Revealing China’s diplomatic narratives of the Belt and Road Initiative0
Review of Augé (2023): Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse0
Dimensions of time and space in narratives for climate action0
Review of Al-Shboul (2023): The Politics in Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective0
The awkward rhetoric of Spanish liberalism0
The groundwork of Putin’s war0
Review of Bielsa (2023): A Translational Sociology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Politics and Society0
The representation of migrant identities in UK Government documents about Brexit0
Discourse of self-legitimation0
The leader and the people0
Discourse Theory and Strategic Communication0
Discourse and transformation0
“Britain was already cherry-picking from the European tree without bothering to water the soil or tend to its branches”0
The construction of Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” in China Daily0
When performance studies meet discourse theory0
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Commemoration and radical right-wing populism in European borderlands0
“A massive field of action”0
Beyond the law0
Supplementing the tropes0
Review of Van Dijk (2024): Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right0
Representation of social class in Korean ELT materials0
Review of Fetzer & Weizman (2019): The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres0
Review of Koller (2023): Voices of Supporters: Populist Parties, Social Media and the 2019 European Elections0
“Serial rorters or mere mortals?” Gendered mediation in comments to newspapers about how male and female government leaders handle money0
Cultivation of sustainability in a discourse of change0
Review of Cheng & Machin (2023): The law and critical discourse studies0
Review of Feldman (2021): When Politicians Talk: The Cultural Dynamics of Public Speaking0
Capturing power in diplomatic language use0
Navigating Brexit through fear0
Review of Stavrakakis & Katsambekis (2024): Research Handbook on Populism0
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